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THE MESSAGE

Proverbs 14:14

A mean person gets paid back in meanness, a gracious person in grace.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Contentment;   Peace;   Thompson Chain Reference - Backsliding;   Deterioration-Development;   The Topic Concordance - Backsliding;   Goodness;   Satisfaction;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Backsliding;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Backslide;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Mines;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Perverse;   Proverbs, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Backslider;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Backsliding;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Backslide;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The disloyal one will get what his conduct deserves,and a good one, what his deeds deserve.
Hebrew Names Version
The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; Likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
King James Version
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
English Standard Version
The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.
New American Standard Bible
One with a wayward heart will have his fill of his own ways, But a good person will be satisfied with his.
New Century Version
Evil people will be paid back for their evil ways, and good people will be rewarded for their good ones.
New English Translation
The backslider will be paid back from his own ways, but a good person will be rewarded for his.
Amplified Bible
The backslider in heart will have his fill with his own [rotten] ways, But a good man will be satisfied with his ways [the godly thought and action which his heart pursues and in which he delights].
World English Bible
The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; Likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The heart that declineth, shall be saciate with his owne wayes: but a good man shall depart from him.
Legacy Standard Bible
The one who turns back in his heart will be satisfied with his ways,But a good man will be satisfied with his.
Berean Standard Bible
The backslider in heart will have the fill of his own ways, but a good man will be rewarded for his.
Contemporary English Version
You harvest what you plant, whether good or bad.
Complete Jewish Bible
A backslider is filled up with his own ways, but a good person gets satisfaction from himself.
Darby Translation
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man from what is in himself.
Easy-to-Read Version
Evil people will be paid back for the wrong they do, and good people will be rewarded for the good they do.
George Lamsa Translation
The insolent in heart shall be filled with the fruit of his ways; and a good man shall be satisfied with the respect he receives.
Good News Translation
Bad people will get what they deserve. Good people will be rewarded for their deeds.
Lexham English Bible
From his ways, the perverse of heart will be satisfied, and from his own, so shall a good man.
Literal Translation
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, but a good man from himself.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
An vnfaithfull personne shal be fylled with his owne wayes, but a good ma wyl bewarre of soch.
American Standard Version
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Bible in Basic English
He whose heart is turned away will have the reward of his ways in full measure; but a good man will have the reward of his doings.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The dissembler in heart shall have his fill from his own ways; and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
King James Version (1611)
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his owne wayes: and a good man shall be satisfied from himselfe.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A backe slydyng heart shalbe fylled with his owne wayes: but a good man shall depart from hym.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
A stout-hearted man shall be filled with his own ways; and a good man with his own thoughts.
English Revised Version
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
A fool schal be fillid with hise weies; and a good man schal be aboue hym.
Update Bible Version
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways; And a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
Webster's Bible Translation
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself.
New King James Version
The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways,But a good man will be satisfied from above. [fn]
New Living Translation
Backsliders get what they deserve; good people receive their reward.
New Life Bible
The man who has gone back into sin will get the fruit of his ways, and a good man will get the fruit of what he does.
New Revised Standard
The perverse get what their ways deserve, and the good, what their deeds deserve.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
With his own ways, shall be filled the backslider in heart, and, from himself, shall a good man be satisfied .
Douay-Rheims Bible
A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.
Revised Standard Version
A perverse man will be filled with the fruit of his ways, and a good man with the fruit of his deeds.
Young's Literal Translation
From his ways is the backslider in heart filled, And a good man -- from his fruits.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The backslider in heart will have his fill of his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied with his.

Contextual Overview

14 A mean person gets paid back in meanness, a gracious person in grace.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

backslider: Proverbs 1:32, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 8:5, Jeremiah 17:5, Hosea 4:16, Zephaniah 1:6, Hebrews 3:12, 2 Peter 2:20-22

filled: Proverbs 1:31, Proverbs 12:14, Ezekiel 22:31

a good: Proverbs 14:10, John 4:14, 2 Corinthians 1:12, Galatians 6:4, Galatians 6:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:26 - looked Exodus 32:20 - made the Deuteronomy 30:17 - heart Judges 16:21 - and put out 1 Samuel 28:15 - I am sore Psalms 109:17 - General Psalms 125:5 - As for such Proverbs 5:23 - in the Proverbs 12:21 - filled Jeremiah 17:13 - they that Hosea 11:7 - are bent Acts 11:24 - he was Hebrews 10:39 - we are

Cross-References

Genesis 12:16
Because of her, Abram got along very well: he accumulated sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, men and women servants, and camels. But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abram's wife Sarai; everybody in the palace got seriously sick.
Genesis 13:8
Abram said to Lot, "Let's not have fighting between us, between your shepherds and my shepherds. After all, we're family. Look around. Isn't there plenty of land out there? Let's separate. If you go left, I'll go right; if you go right, I'll go left."
Genesis 14:1
Then this: Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim went off to war to fight Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, that is, Zoar.
Genesis 14:3
This second group of kings, the attacked, came together at the Valley of Siddim, that is, the Salt Sea. They had been under the thumb of Kedorlaomer for twelve years. In the thirteenth year, they revolted.
Genesis 14:5
In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings allied with him set out and defeated the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim, and the Horites in their hill country of Seir as far as El Paran on the far edge of the desert. On their way back they stopped at En Mishpat, that is, Kadesh, and conquered the whole region of the Amalekites as well as that of the Amorites who lived in Hazazon Tamar.
Deuteronomy 34:1
Moses climbed from the Plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the peak of Pisgah facing Jericho. God showed him all the land from Gilead to Dan, all Naphtali, Ephraim, and Manasseh; all Judah reaching to the Mediterranean Sea; the Negev and the plains which encircle Jericho, City of Palms, as far south as Zoar.
Judges 20:1
Then all the People of Israel came out. The congregation met in the presence of God at Mizpah. They were all there, from Dan to Beersheba, as one person! The leaders of all the people, representing all the tribes of Israel, took their places in the gathering of God's people. There were four hundred divisions of sword-wielding infantry.
Proverbs 17:17
Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble.
1 John 2:18
Children, time is just about up. You heard that Antichrist is coming. Well, they're all over the place, antichrists everywhere you look. That's how we know that we're close to the end.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways,.... One that is a backslider at heart, whose heart departeth from the Lord; in whom there is an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; and indeed apostasy begins at the heart, and shows itself in the life and conversation: there may be a backsliding when the heart does not wickedly depart from God; but is through the infirmity of the flesh and the force of temptation; from which backslidings the Lord's people are recovered, and which are healed by his grace; but here such an one is meant who willingly and heartily backslides; and such shall have the reward of their hands and actions given them, or the full and due punishment of their sins; they shall have their bellyful of their own wicked ways and works, the just recompense of reward for them;

and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself; shall eat the fruit of his own doings, shall be blessed in his deeds, and have peace and satisfaction therein; though not salvation by them, or for them: he shall be satisfied with the grace of God bestowed on him and wrought in him; and, from a feeling experience of the grace of God within him, shall be satisfied that he has in heaven a better and an enduring substance; or he shall be satisfied "from above himself" m, from the grace that is in Christ, out of the fulness which is in him; and shall be filled with all the fulness of God he is capable of; and especially in the other world, when he shall awake in his likeness. The Targum is,

"a good man shall be satisfied with his fear;''

and so the Syriac version, with the fear of his soul; it may be rendered, as by the Vulgate Latin version, "a good man shall be above him" n; that is, above the backslider; shall be better tilled, and be more happy than he.

m מעליו "de super eo", Montanus; "de super semet", Schultens. n "Et super cum erit vir bonus", V. L. De Dieu.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall be satisfied - These words are not in the original. Repeat the verb from the first clause, “He who falls away from God in his heart, shall be filled with his own ways; and the good man (shall be filled) with that which belongs to him.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 14:14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways

1. Who is the backslider? סוג sug.

1) The man who once walked in the ways of religion, but has withdrawn from them.

2) The man who once fought manfully against the world, the devil, and the flesh; but has retreated from the battle, or joined the enemy.

3) The man who once belonged to the congregation of the saints, but is now removed from them, and is set down in the synagogue of Satan.

2. But who is the backslider in HEART?

1) Not he who was surprised and overcome by the power of temptation, and the weakness of his own heart.

2) But he who drinks down iniquity with greediness.

3) Who gives cheerful way to the bent of his own nature, and now delights in fulfilling the lusts of the flesh and of the mind.

4) Who loves sin as before he loved godliness.

3. What are his own ways? Folly, sin, disappointment, and death; with the apprehension of the wrath of God, and the sharp twingings of a guilty conscience.

4. What is implied in being filled with his own ways? Having his soul saturated with folly, sin, and disappointment. At last ending here below in death, and then commencing an eternal existence where the fire is not quenched, and under the influence of that worm that never dieth. Alas, alas! who may abide when God doeth this?

And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

1. Who is the good man? (איש טוב ish tob.)

1) The man whose heart is right with God, whose tongue corresponds to his heart, and whose actions correspond to both.

2) The man who is every thing that the sinner and backslider are not.

2. He shall be satisfied from himself - he shall have the testimony of his own conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, he has his conversation among men.

3. He shall have God's Spirit to testify with his spirit that he is a child of God. He hath the witness in himself that he is born from above. The Spirit of God in his conscience, and the testimony of God in his Bible, show him that he belongs to the heavenly family. It is not from creeds or confessions of faith that he derives his satisfaction: he gets it from heaven, and it is sealed upon his heart.


 
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